Successful reduction in contaimination and an increase in blood culture collection rates, following introduction of adult blook culture packs
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Introduction / objectives Our hospital’s blood culture contamination rate within adult wards reached 5.2% prior to the introduction of adult blood culture packs. In addition, during 2009 the hospital’s blood culture collection rate was 31 blood culture bottles per 1000 patient days. The aim of the study was to assess the impact of introducing a blood culture collection pack on the rate of blood culture collection and contamination.
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